12 June 2011

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Auto hide gnome-shell top bar

I have made packages for a nice little gnome-shell extension by Finnbarr P. Murphy, to make it possible to auto hide the top bar.

Install it with (as root):
yum install http://timlau.fedorapeople.org/files/gnome-shell/extensions/\
gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar-1.0-1.fc15.noarch.rpm

logon/logoff to load the plugin (or restart the gnome shell with Alt-F2 and type 'r' + Enter)

Double click on a blank part of the gnome-shell top bar to turn auto hide on/off.

Fedora review request here

12 comments:

  1. pankaj12 June 2011 at 13:28

    Thanks a lot for the package, i've been waiting for this functionality in gnome-shell since quite long.
    On a side note seeing the sheer number of gnome-shell-extensions, i think its high time the devs develop an extension manager for gs

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  2. timlau12 June 2011 at 14:18

    @pankaj The lastest version of gnome-tweek-tool (3.0.4) has the feature to enable & disable extentsion, but it is not yet updated in Fedora. I have a package here you can try out.

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  4. question12 June 2011 at 19:53

    Is there a way to move the top bar to the bottom (or left or right)?

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  5. timlau12 June 2011 at 19:59

    @question I don't think so, the current top panel is currently not designed to be placed in the bottom or side of the screen

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  6. josnog22 June 2011 at 16:27

    Before installing gnome3, I had glx-dock instead of gnome2 panels and I have to say I liked the unobtrusive way it behaved.
    Don't know if it's possible to be ported to a gnome-shell extension, but it would be a great feature hiding the top bar when overlaps any window or instead only the active window.

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  7. Library Eye23 June 2011 at 10:48

    I think my greatest annoyance with GNOME 3 was having to look at that bar. Blue hats off to you. Been using this for just a few minutes, and I'm awfully pleased. I ran over to fedoraforum to post a link to this under http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=264623

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  8. timlau23 June 2011 at 17:01

    @josnog
    I use Avant-window-navigator to get extra bars with more control.

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  9. q_uasi24 June 2011 at 18:24

    Thanks for this great tool especially for small screen environments!

    Let me suggest you to _hide_ the top panel by default and instead _show_ the top panel by default in the Activities overview.

    The current rendering when autounhiding the top panel is not really well performing, does not look very nice.

    However: GREAT EXTENSION

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  10. Henry23 July 2011 at 02:46

    Nice extension a little buggy on my system. How do I remove it.

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  11. timlau23 July 2011 at 12:47

    type this (as root):
    yum remove gnome-shell-extension-autohidetopbar
    To remove it

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  12. Henry23 July 2011 at 20:08

    Thank you.

    Henry

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